I starting writing about sports in college. I’d fill in everyone so often for the sports editor of the University of Idaho Argonaut and I’d cover everything from the local semipro football team to the school’s golf squad.

While golf was always my go-to, the semipro team is what taught me the most.

They weren’t flashy and they rarely won—but they didn’t care. Every player had a story and they were all there, every Saturday, because they simply loved the sport of football. It was always about the game and the effort.

Jordan Spieth didn’t win yesterday, by now you know that.

Some say he counted his chickens or did what ever other idiom you can come up with for tailoring a green jacket in his size before the 18th. Some say he couldn’t handle the pressure—calling in his coach Sunday morning and adjusting everything to fix nothing. ESPN’s subtle headline genius even went so far as to say it was the “most shocking” loss in golf history.

And some, like me, say well kid that’s golf and it doesn’t care who you are or what record you are chasing.

After bogeys on 10 and 11 and a crushing quadruple-bogey 7 on the 12th, where he lost the lead after putting two in Rae’s Creek, Jordan was out and Danny Willett was in.

The 28-year-old Englishman almost opted-out of this week. His wife was pregnant with the baby due on Sunday, April 10th. But his son arrived two weeks early and Willett flew in late Monday and was the last player in the 89-man field to sign in.

More about Willett later.

When it was all said and done, Spieth, like the beaten and bruised players of the Palouse Thunder football team used to, walked off the field and congratulated the opponent. And he did it with composure and sportsmanship, knowing that people—that young golfers who look up to him—were watching.

He sat and listened to Jim Nance and Billy Payne discuss the fate of the day, praising Willett’s five-under-par 67 for the day, and 72-hole total of a five-under 283, and he put the jacket on Willett and he shook his hand.

Because that’s what you do.

Because it’s always about the game and the effort.

Willett said of Spieth after the round, “He’s a class act to be able to hold face as he did, obviously hurting like I imagine he would be. It just shows the character of the guy.”

Even the Twitterverse took notice (as they do), contrasting Spieth’s solid composure at Butler Cabin while awarding Willet his first green jacket to Cam Newtons tantrum after loosing the Super Bowl. So much so that Cam’s name began trending again, along with #nationalsiblingday—which in case you were wondering is not federally recognized, though the Siblings Day Foundation is working to change this.

I hope Cam Newton is watching Jordan Spieth's interview right now. To be a true professional you have to be able to face the music